Jan 1My Product Leadership Reflections on 2022Some things I learned last year — It’s been a while since I wrote a year-in-review post — five years, after my first full year as a product manager at Yammer. 2022 was not my first full year as Head of Product, but it was momentous for me in my role at RevenueCat. …Product Management6 min readProduct Management6 min read
Dec 7, 2022I Interviewed ChatGPT for a PM role, and it almost got the jobHow to detect the AI’s confident but shallow answers — I’ve interviewed a lot of product manager candidates, and one of the regular interview formats (which is pretty standard in a PM interview loop) is the product sense interview. …Product Management14 min readProduct Management14 min read
Aug 26, 2022Managing Work in Progress as a Product ManagerSpeed up by increasing focus — Product managers are continuously inundated with requests and ideas from all sides. Even when being very careful with prioritization, it can happen that the team ends up with too many projects being worked on in parallel — a large amount of work in progress. High work in progress (WIP) is…Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Jul 21, 2022Remote and Asynchronous Product ManagementHow to thrive as a PM when working from anywhere — I am currently Head of Product at RevenueCat. Our team of roughly 60 people is globally distributed, fully remote and async-first. This is my first fully remote position, and in this article, I want to share a few lessons I have learned to be effective in this context. Before diving…Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Jun 29, 2022Reducing Bias as a Product ManagerThinking, Fast and Slow — Human brains are pretty amazing. We take in millions of pieces of information every second, process them, make connections with what we already know, and make decisions based on that. …Product Management10 min readProduct Management10 min read
May 29, 2022Why product managers should not be data drivenDon’t get hit by Goodhart’s Law — Before the advent of SaaS and ubiquitous internet access, software companies had very little information about how end users actually used their products. …Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
Apr 30, 2022Interviewing Product Managers for Product SenseEvaluating “hard” product skills — I’ve been involved in interview panels for a lot of PMs, and have set up hiring processes for product managers in two different startups. …Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Mar 13, 2022Take-home assignments for product management candidatesThe pros and cons of requiring written homework — I’ve recently gone through the process of designing a product management interview process for RevenueCat. …Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
Feb 13, 2022Defining teams for a product development organizationFour interesting ideas about product org design Recently I’ve been again thinking a lot about setting up product development teams, since we are working on growing the product and engineering orgs at RevenueCat. I’ve written before about what I consider the best in class principles to follow for the product development organization and empowered product teams. …Product Management7 min readProduct Management7 min read
Jan 23, 2022Technology: Crucial Product Management Skill 6/20Don’t attempt to be an engineer, but work with them effectively — This post is part of a series of short articles about the 20 most crucial product management skills. What it means Technology domain skills include understanding and making correct trade-off decisions about the tech stack, key dependencies, and drivers of feasibility and complexity. …Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
